at the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival on September 22. On its opening weekend, the film grossed $14,262 from 21 theatres, averaging $679 per theater and ranking number 54 at the box office. The film earned a total gross of $22,029 after two weeks of release, with a widest release of 21 theatres. Critical reception Answers to Nothing received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes holds it at a approval rating based on reviews, with an average score of . On Metacritic, the film scored a 29 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Roger Ebert was critical of the "interlocking" tales and approach to short stories the film took from both Paul Haggis' Crash and Robert Altman's Short Cuts respectively, concluding with, "So the film, while well-made and acted, lacks the gathering power of the others that I've mentioned." Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times said that despite a decent cast, he critiqued that "it can never fully surmount an overlong, largely underwhelming script that often swaps forced personality quirks and symbolic gestures for honest dimension." Dennis Harvey from Variety found the film to be "well crafted and watchable but lacks the distinctive story content, style and standout performances to become more than a serviceable reboot of familiar ideas." Newsday writer Rafer Guzman wrote about the movie overall, "[T]he performances are passable, but Leutwyler (who directed, co-wrote and edited) mixes his scenes with astounding tone-deafness, veering from fertility-clinic comedy to bloody violence to youthful romance. Moreover, the dialogue is filled with bogus sermons on random topics like kindness, faith, justice — anything you like, really." The A.V. Clubs Nathan Rabin rated the film with a D+ grade. He found Dane Cook "miscast and unconvincing" in his role, criticizing him for his use of "a dour expression and permanent frown" for his performance but said his appearance is the only thing in the movie that sets it apart from the numerous "everything-is-connected knock-offs" found in film festivals, saying "[I]t doesn't build to a climax so much as it winds down with a halfhearted shrug and a few feeble false shots of hope. (Maybe we aren't so different after all!)" R. Kurt Osenlund of Slant Magazine heavily lambasted Leutwyler for his "amateurish delusions" of having idiosyncratic characters and misguided philosophising being taken as having depth, only for it to be "tasteless and out of touch